Estes to present 'Dixie Overland Highway' at CAMM

4:38 PM,
May 10, 2013

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Author and photographer Lee Estes will tell the story of historic U.S. 80 at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Chennault Aviation and Military Museum at the monthly meeting of the Friends of Chennault Museum.

The public is invited to the presentation about this early highway. There is no admission charge.

According to Estes, although never given the publicity generated by U.S. "Route 66," the "Dixie Overland Highway" - later to be designated U.S. 80 - is the most historic public road in Louisiana. U.S. 80 was the first all-weather coast-to-coast highway in the United States and probably carried many more ...